Zarak: No-one is forced to actually vote for anyone, they can simply submit an empty ballot. The reason I think that manditory voting is better is that I think that if people are forced to vote anyways some of the people that would not have voted will decide to do at least some research into who they want to vote for. Certainly there are going to be some people who vote uninformed, but do you think that everyone who votes in The US or Canada is always informed?